Essay for Exodus 30:17
וַיְדַבֵּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֥ה לֵּאמֹֽר׃
And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
The Five Books of Moses, by Everett Fox
Returning to the familiar stylistic pattern of the Tabernacle account, “You are to make …,” we are told of the basin in which the priests washed. Yet this brief aside links up with the motif of protection from death that was encountered earlier (see 28:35).
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